How to Activate an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group

When you activate a protection group using the command in this procedure, application resource groups in the protection group are also brought online. For details about how the -e (scope) option affects resource groups in the protection group, see the geopg(1M) man page.

Next, the protection group, srdfpg, is activated by using the geopg start command.

phys-paris-1# geopg start -e local srdfpg

The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software runs the symrdf -g devgroup1 establish command at the data replication level. If the command is successful, the state of devgroup1 is returned in the output of the symrdf query command as follows: